Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all we were all leading aircraftsmen on the course and the officer element were acting pilot officers on probation who generally referred to themselves as the lowest form of animal life within the RAF . |
| 2 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 3 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 4 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 5 | It 's like a B-movie from a past of happier memories , turned against itself by the one British director who truly understands the mode . |
| 6 | She sighed to herself at the boring predictability of it . |
| 7 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 8 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |
| 9 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 10 | McLeish smiled to himself at the swift fall from grace in the postscript . |
| 11 | In her bedroom , Honor gazed at herself in the cracked mirror , a sense of hopelessness bringing tears to her eyes . |
| 12 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 13 | She said , ‘ I expect it 'll be something you 'll remember and treasure for the rest of your lives , ’ and Carrie was pleased because she sounded like herself for the first time that day . |